TEDxNapaValley - Robert Romano - What Happens Next?
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Robert Romano talks about "What Happens Next?" as part of the TEDxNapaValley "Empowering Leadership at Every Level" event. Robert Romano. BookheadEd founder & CEO and creator of StudySync , M.A. in Literature and the Teaching of Writing, developed the successful, award-winning EdVantage Software with renowned educator James Moffet, which sold t... Read more
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- -: TEDxNapaValley - Robert Romano - What Happens Next?
January 22, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Robert Romano talks about "What Happens Next?" as part of the TEDxNapaValley "Empowering Leadership at Every Level" event. Robert Romano. BookheadEd founder & CEO and creator of StudySync , M.A. in Literature and the Teaching of Writing, developed the successful, award-winning EdVantage Software...
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June 7, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Ivy started reading the Bible — cover-to-cover — in June 2010. Not a religious person (she says 'God hates me') but because she wanted to understand why religion breeds so much hate and why her sister, who was going to church at the time, wanted nothing to do with her. Ivy documented her journey ...
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